Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Florian Weimer
2005-12-05T21:00:33Z

* Matthias Andree:

> The point that just escaped you as the motivation for this thread was
> the availability of security (or other critical) fixes for older
> kernels. It would all be fine if, say, the fix for CVE-2004-2492 were
> available for those who find 2.6.8 works for them (the fix went into
> 2.6.14 BTW), and the concern is the development model isn't fit to
> accomodate needs like this.

Well, if there's a CVE name, the proper patch isn't *that* far away
(someone has already done a bit of work to isolate the fix). The real
issue seems to be how to make sure that CVE names are assigned during
the kernel development process (and not just as an afterthought by the
security folks).